Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time; or, The Jarls and The FreskynsGray, James
History
Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time; or, The Jarls and The Freskyns
Gray, James
Caithness (Scotland) -- History; Freskin family; Sutherland (Scotland) -- History
[Footnote 2: An able paper on this subject by the late Mr. R.L.
Bremner was read to the Viking Society, and it is hoped may be
printed. But Brunanburgh is usually located south of the Humber, or in
the Wirral in Cheshire. See _Scandinavian Britain_, pp. 131-4 where it
is located on the west coast, and on this coast it probably was.]
[Footnote 13: See _Genealogie of the Earles_, pp. 1 and 2, as to the
"boundaries of Southerland."]
[Footnote 14: _F.B._, vol. i, pp. 221-9. See Trans. of _O.S._,
Hjaltalin and Goudie, App. pp. 203-212. See also _St. Olaf's Saga_, c.
cix. See also generally Vigfusson's _Prolegomena to Sturlunga Saga_,
Introduction, p. xcii, vol. i.]
[Footnote 15: The "scurvy Kalf" and "tree-bearded Thorir."]
[Footnote 16: _O.S._, ch. 6, 7.]
[Footnote 17: _O.S._, ch. 8, on Rinar's Hill. Tudor, _O. and S._, p.
364.]
[Footnote 18: _O.S._, ch. 80. But see _Heimskringla_, Saga Library, i,
96 and _St. Olaf's Saga_, ch. cv and cvii.]
[Footnote 19: See _Blackwood's Magazine_, April 1920; an able and
interesting article intituled _A Branch of the Family_, by J. Storer
Clouston.]
[Footnote 20: _F.B._, ch. 183, 184.]
[Footnote 21: Tudor, _Orkney and Shetland_, p. 336.]
[Footnote 22: _Torf. Orc._, p. 25, "facile de alieno largientis."]
[Footnote 23: _F.B._, 115. _O.P._, 783. _F.B._, 186. _O.S._, 10, 11.
_O.S._, 8. Skene, _Celtic Scotland_, i, 374-9.]
[Footnote 24: Dalrymple, _Collections_, p. 99.]
[Footnote 25: Viking Society, _Orkney and Shetland Folk_, 1914, p. 5.]
[Footnote 26: _O.P._, (Canisbay), vol. ii, 794, 816.]
[Footnote 27: _O.S._, 11.]
[Footnote 28: _B.N._, c. 85.]
[Footnote 29: _O.S._, 12. _F.B._, 187. The _F.B._ makes the scene of
this battle Skitten Moor.]
[Footnote 30: _F.B._, 187.]
[Footnote 31: _Thorgisl_, I, 4. (_Orig. Islandicae_, ii, p. 635.) In
_The Old Statistical Account_ (Tongue) there is a tradition of such a
fight on Eilean nan Gall at the entrance to the Bay of Tongue, then in
Caithness.]
[Footnote 32: p. 23.]
[Footnote 33: See Sir Wm. Fraser's _Book of Sutherland_, and Pedigree
in Appendix. There is a Craig Amlaiph (Olaf) above Torboll and
Cambusmore (both in Cat) near the Mound in Sudrland. There were no
Thanes of the De Moravia line in Sutherland.]
[Footnote 34: See _The Pictish Nation and Church_, pp. 129-32, and
341.]
[Footnote 35: See _Darratha-liod_, published by the Viking Club,
1910.]
[Footnote 36: _Burnt Njal_, c. 151.]
[Footnote 37: Iceland accepted Christianity by a vote of its Thing in
1000 A.D. "Blood" often fell in Iceland; after a volcanic eruption,
rain was tinged with red.]
[Footnote 38: Tudor, _O. and S._, p. 20.]
[Footnote 39: Rods used for dividing and pressing downwards.]
[Footnote 40: See _Scandinavian Britain_ (Collingwood), p. 256-7,
where Mr. Gilbert Goudie's _Antiquities of Shetland_ is referred to.]
CHAPTER IV.
[Footnote 1: _Reg. Morav._, p. xxiv, and _Charter_ No. 264, p. 342.]
[Footnote 2: Dunbar, _Scottish Kings_, pp. 4-7.]
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